British-American literary pundit Christopher Hitchens needs little introduction. Besides being an author and journalist for over four decades, writing on subjects as varied as literature, politics and religion, he is also the ultimate outspoken atheist and a heavy smoker and hard drinker (“I drink because it makes other people less boring”). For obvious reasons, he is not liked by a lot of people, some of whom in fact publicly rejoiced when he was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer earlier this year. However, on a Monday last month, some of them decided to hold a ‘Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day’ which included, ironically, a few believers who were his friends.